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Definition of Segmented
1. Adjective. Having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters.
Category relationships: Zoological Science, Zoology
Similar to: Divided
Derivative terms: Metamere
Definition of Segmented
1. a. Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
Definition of Segmented
1. Verb. (past of segment) ¹
2. Adjective. Having or made of segments. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Segmented
1. segment [v] - See also: segment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Segmented
Literary usage of Segmented
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"I have explained that globular, concentric, radiating, branched, segmented,
curved, and spiral arrangements obtain in crystals, plants, and animals (Plates ..."
2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"CHAPTER XIV EARTHWORMS, LEECHES AND OTHER segmented « WORMS The segmented
worms (branch Annelida, ... The segmented worms are grouped in four classes, ..."
3. Henrik Krøyer's Publications on Pelagic Marine Copepoda (1838-1849) by Carl C. Damkaer, David M. Damkaer (1979)
"The two-segmented basal part is somewhat shorter than the rami ... The inner
ramus is two-segmented, the first segment with a protruding tip or expansion on ..."
4. Outlines of zoology by John Arthur Thomson (1895)
"THE Annelida do not form a well defined phylum, but include segmented worms, in
which the segmentation of the body is usually visible externally. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1886)
"... A., On the origin of segmented animals and the relation of the mouth and anus
to the mouth of the Coelenterata, 61—64. On Weissmann's New Theory of ..."
6. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1910)
"The segmented Animals. Metamerism. All vertebrates and certain invertebrates ...
Since all segmented animals are bilaterally symmetrical, each segment is ..."
7. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1909)
"Tarsi apparently four-segmented with the first three joints broad and pubescent;
... Tarsi slender, all four-segmented,except in the males where only three ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Interior partly occupied by small chamber*, arranged iu more or leas regular
layers, and partly by non- segmented canal-like spaces, often crowded with ..."
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